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never find satisfactorily answered. — A habit, an aptitude to re- 

 peat certain acts acquired by a frequent repetition of them, 

 could never occur to any arrangement of parts destitute of sen- 

 sation, much less could such an insentient form impart such 

 aptitude to its prog^eny, yet Plants do both. 



Chap. 5. Is a very superficial sketch of draining Fony 

 Lands. — Chap. 6. concluding the work, is on the culture of 

 Hops, correct in its statements, but meagre in its details. 



2. The Practical Kitchen Gardener, or a new and entire sys- 

 tem of directions for his employment in the Melonry, Kitchen 

 Garden, and Potagery in the several seasons of the year. Being 

 chiefly the observations of a Person train'd up in the Neat 

 Houses or Kitchen Gardens about London. Illustrated with 

 Plans and Descriptions proper for the situation and disposition 

 of these Gardens — And in a supplement the method of raising 

 Cucumbers, and Melons, Mushrooms, Borcole, Brocoli, Pota- 

 toes, and other curious and useful Plants, as practised in 

 France, Italy, Holland, and Ireland. — And also an account of 

 the labour and profits of a Kitchen Garden, and what every 

 Gentleman may reasonably expect therefrom in every month of 

 the year. The whole Methodized and improved by Stephen 

 Switzer.— 1727. 8vo. 



The dedication is to Lord Bathurst — The preface is chiefly 

 of the qualification of a Gardener, and the plan of the work of 

 which we are about to give the anatomy* Chap. 2. — Is of the 

 general choice of a situation and soil proper for a Kitchen 

 Garden. Chap. 3. Of the soil particular to all kinds of kit- 

 chen vegetables, its improvements Sec. Chap. 4. Of the 

 different culture proper for kitchen herbs and plants. Chap. 

 5. Of Water, its uses in a Garden — Chap. 6. Of Melons, 

 Cucumbers, Pumpkins, Gourds, &c. — Chap. 7. Of the situa- 

 tion proper for a Melonry, of the hot-beds, glasses, &c. The 



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